FD-ISR on an Existing System

Hi!

How long do you estimate it will take me to make a snapshot/secondary of my boot disk which has 80Gb of programs+OS on it?

Are the images compressed?

I have a feeling I wont like the answer!

Fairy

 

Every system is different in speed, test it yourself.
FDISR has an evaluation version and you don't need to be a genius to copy/paste the primary snapshot (created during the installation) to a second snapshot and watch your clock, while it's happening.

Time also the backup and restore of your image backup software.

 

100 GB partition with about 23 GB of windows + progs takes around an hour on my sys.

Snapshots are not compressed in current release but next - archives can be compressed

 

The first snapshot will take longer than most, anywhere from 50 mins to over an hour depending on HD space. Updating that snapshot takes much less time, anywhere from 2 mins to 6 mins.

In the current version, snapshots are not compressed (except archives, but you can't boot into them), but the next build will have that functionality.

 

Does that 80 GB file system also contain data? It is possible to exclude data from copying, while it will be available in all snapshots.
(for example downloaded files)
That could significantly reduce the time and space it takes to copy/update a snapshot.
It's called data anchoring.

 

unfortunately not... well I suppose the games include maps and models etc.

Estime was 3hrs+ (and that's on a RaptorX). I've build a test partition might do it instead as it's a clean install.

Fairy

 

And should be same amount of time to recover the snapshot?

 

switching between snapshot takes seconds I have seven. Reboot choose snapshot switch reboot - 30 seconds ish


- importing from an archive is a bit quicker than TI would take to restore an image

 

Thanks.
so at least here it is as fast as RollBackRx.

 

I have 2 lics for FD ISR and 2 lics for Rollback. For me RB has only one advantage speed of taking snapshots - I created a snapshot every boot. But on my systems it is not 100% reliable and the snapshots are not persistent. I now only use it on one multiboot system - because FD will not work on this system.


FD uses more space, snapshots take longer to create. But it is very reliable with persistent snapshots.